Scrap fee hike in Navy school, CCC schools

Some hundred guardians and students of Bangladesh Navy School and College, Chittagong, yesterday took to the street in the port city protesting nearly a 100 percent hike in tuition fees from this month.

The demonstrators, all civilians, blocked a road near the institute halting traffic for almost one and a half hours when police manhandled them and also charged baton on them, claimed the protestors as well as witnesses.

Denying the allegations, Abul Kalam, officer-in-charge of EPZ Police Station, claimed they peacefully freed the road within just seven minutes. Syed Md Idris, head teacher of the school, refused to make any comment.

Meanwhile, another section of protestors at a rally before Shaheed Minar in the city declared that they would continue their demonstrations until Chittagong City Corporation scarped tuition fee hike in schools run under its authority.

They also condemned the recent incident where "guardians and students were manhandled by police" during their attempt to submit a memorandum to the mayor.